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by stinos 2820 days ago
Do I have to relearn how to goo..

Sort of, yes. See other comments around here as well. It's like Google without the backend which knows your habits and bubble and tries to be smart (and succeeds, often) and figures out what you want to search for despite you being a bit vague. DDG doesn't do that so, like in the old days, you have to be specific. Like if you talk to a person and ask a question: you also don't ask 'pasta?'. You ask 'where can I buy pasta' for instance.
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sonar_un 2820 days ago
I am with you on this. I find DDG completely unusable. The kinds of things that I search for are generally daily or weekly recent items and DDG never gets this stuff indexed quickly enough. Not even from the largest papers.

I am sure it’s fine for more evergreen content like SO, but for current news it’s awful.

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stinos 2819 days ago
I am with you on this. I find DDG completely unusable

Ha but my point was just to explain how it works. I've been using DDG for years and find it extremely usable :)

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